Stress test

[canuck]

has anyonee here had a stress test, can you descrbie to me what all you had to do??

[2big4mysize]

i had one for basketball back in my youth and they hook you up to the monitor and start the treadmil and you walk they increase the speed and you go faster they read the monitor they contiue to increase the speed till they see some abnormal heart rythms or selectrical activity or you reach your max heart rate they have presdetermined for your test.

If because of physical limitations you can't use the exercise equipment they can give you a chemicl to make your heart preform like it was on the treadmill and they will chart those electrical activites of your heart on the monitor over time looking for irregular patterns and or spikes or lack of spikes.

when is yours scheduled?

[canuck]

I go Wed, you know for past yr I have not been able to exercise due to injury and just lately phsyio gave me permission to start walking but have pelvis problems, what if I cant do the fast walking or am just so out of shape to do it, hopefully can still perform it as don’t want the chemical, or the angiogram. I am going to walk on treadmill several times a day to start getting ready but couldn’t as had a phsyio trtment and am in bad pain for four days following each trtment.is it wise to kind of prep self like that, should have started earleir but couldnt due to pelvis pain